Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Pickett, Kate.
2. Wilkinson, Richard G.

Description

1. 176 pages : illustrations; 18 cm.

Summary

1. A wide-ranging exploration of why inequality persists and what can be done about it. It discusses the positive effects that equality can have using examples and case studies from across the globe, and examines the lessons of history, covering race, gender and ethnicity, age, and wealth.

Series statement

1. No-nonsense guides

Uniform title

1. No-nonsense guides (New Internationalist Publications (Firm))

Alternative title

1. Guide to equality

Subject

1. Equality
2. Income distribution
3. Distributive justice
4. Social justice
5. Revenu > Répartition
6. Justice distributive
7. Justice sociale
8. Society
9. Distributive justice
10. Income distribution

Contents

1. Foreword / by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett -- Introduction -- 1. Why equality matters -- 2. What is equality? -- 3. Winning greater equality--and losing it -- 4. When we were more equal -- 5. Where equality can be found -- 6. How we win greater equality -- Index.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain